India Telangana Public Holiday January 1st

Sources: Government of Telangana (Hyderabad) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's State of Telangana has issued the "G.O.Rt.No.3192 Dated 30.12.2015" which declares New Year's Day 2016, on Friday, January 1st, 2016, as a non-working public holiday in India's State of Telangana, as opposed to an optional public holiday in India's State of Telangana. [full story]

South Australia Adelaide Cup Public Holiday Update

Sources: Government of South Australia SafeWork SA (Adelaide) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Acting Premier of the Government of the Australian State of South Australia, John Rau, has announced that his government was considering a new proposal to move the annual Queen’s Birthday non-working public holiday in the Australian State of South Australia, from June to a new date in May which would coincide with the new date of the Adelaide Cup Race. [full story]

Peruvian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo del Perú (MTPE) and Peru bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Peru has released its annual list of the official non-working Peruvian public holidays for both the private and public sectors of Peru for the upcoming calendar year 2016 ("feriados para sector público y privado"). [full story]

Egyptian 2016 Bank Holidays Announced

Sources: The Central Bank of Egypt (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Egypt's Central Bank has released its annual list of 2016 bank holidays in Egypt, dates when all Egyptian banks will be closed in the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Morocco 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وزارة الأوقاف والشؤون الإسلامية (Casablanca) and Morocco public holidays (qppstudio.net). Morocco has released its annual list of non-working public holidays in Morocco for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Dominican Republic 2016 Reyes Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo, República Dominicana (Santo Domingo) and Dominican Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued an official communiqué confirming that, as per the current legislation on public holidays in the Dominican Republic, the upcoming "Día de los Santos Reyes" annual non-working Dominican public holiday would be moved, in 2016, from its traditional date of January 6, to Monday, January 4, 2016. [full story]

Nigerian New Year 2016 Public Holiday

Sources: Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Abuja) and Nigerian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Minister of Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of Nigeria, Bassey Akpanyung, announced that it had declared Friday, January 1, 2016, as a non-working public holiday in Nigeria to mark the "New Year Celebration". [full story]

Pakistan New Year 2016 Bank Holiday

Sources: The State Bank of Pakistan (Karachi) and Pakistani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has declared Friday, January 1st, 2016, as a bank holiday throughout Pakistan on account of the upcoming Western New Year annual bank holiday in Pakistan and public holiday in Pakistan for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Bahrain New Year 2016 Public Holidays

Sources: مصرف البحرين المركزى (Manama) Bahrain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bahrain's Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has finally issued a circular declaring Friday, January 1, 2016, as the annual non-working public holiday in Bahrain to mark the upcoming Western New Year non-working public holiday of Bahrain for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Ecuador Rules-Out December 31 Public Holiday

Sources: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES) and Ecuador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ecuador's Minister of Labor, Leonardo Berrezueta, has issued a Twitter communique ruling-out the rumoured declaration of December 31, 2015, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Ecuador ("IMPORTANTE: El 31 de diciembre se labora normalmente, no existe ninguna disposición de feriado. Circulan decretos falsos en redes."). [full story]

Mozambique 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Agencia de Informção de Moçambique (Maputo) and Mozambique bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Mozambique's Ministry of Labour (Ministério do Trabalho, Emprego e Segurança Social - MITESS) has announced its traditional year-end one-off public sector holidays in Mozambique, beginning at 12:00 noon, on Thursday, December 31, 2015, "to allow civil servants to prepare the year-end holidays in a dignified manner". [full story]

Armenia Rules-Out January 8 Public Holiday

Sources: Հայերեն լրատվական գործակալությանը (ARMENPRESS) and Armenian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan, has confirmed that the upcoming year-end and Christmas 2016 non-working public holidays in Armenia would run from December 31, 2015, until January 7, 2016, and that "January 8, which is Friday, will be a working day". [full story]

Guatemalan Bank Holiday December 31

Sources: Diario de Centro América (Diario público de Guatemala) and Guatemala bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The supervisory body in charge of the banking sector in Guatemala (the Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala) has announced that a one-off bank holiday would be observed in Guatemala on Thursday, December 31, 2015. [full story]

Bolivian 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Previsión Social (La Paz) and Bolivian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The head of Bolivia's Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Previsión Social, Gonzalo Trigoso, has announced the declaration of 2015-2016 year-end non-working public holidays in Bolivia. [full story]

Algerian 2016 New Year Public Holiday

Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian Ministry of Labour (Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité Sociale) has announced that Friday, January 1, 2016, had been declared as a non-working public holiday in Algeria ("journée chômée et payée") on account of the Western New Year non-working public holiday in Algeria for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Saipan 2016 Public Holidays Released

Sources: The CNMI Civil Service Commission and Office of Personnel Management (CNMIOPM) and Saipan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Governor of Saipan (CNMI), Eloy S. Inos, has released the list of official annual non-working public holidays in the CNMI (aka. Saipan), for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Palau 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Palau Government (Koror) and Palau bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Palau has released its annual list of the official non-working public holidays in Palau for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Ecuador Public Holidays 2016-2020

Sources: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES) and Ecuador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, has released the Decreto No.858 which specifies the dates of the annual non-working public holidays in Ecuador, one-off public holidays in Ecuador, and moveable public holidays in Ecuador, for the upcoming 5-year period covering the calendar years 2016-2017-2018-2019-2020. [full story]

Vanuatu 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Vanuatu (Port Vila) and Vanuatu bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Vanuatu has announced its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Vanuatu for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Moldova 2016 Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Agentia Informationala de Stat (Moldpres) and Moldovan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Moldova has gazetted the "Moldovan Government Decision Nr. 867 of December 18, 2015", signed by the Interim Prime Minister of Moldova, Gheorghe Brega, thus officializing, in the "Official Gazette no. 347-360 of December 25, 2015", the expanded and later amended list of one one-off 2016 non-working public holiday in Moldova and annual non-working public holidays in Moldova, for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Monaco 2016 Public Sector Holidays

Sources: Journal de l'administration de la Principauté de Monaco (JDA) and Monaco bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Monaco's public service administration has published its annual list of additional non-working public sector holidays in Monaco (liste des jours chômés et payés dans l'Administration) for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Mexico 2016 Bank Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNVB) and Mexico bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores of Mexico has gazetted its annual official list of the dates of Mexican bank holidays for 2016 in the Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF 22/12/2015). [full story]

Macedonian New Year 2016 Public Holiday

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced that Friday, January 1st, 2016, had been declared a non-working public holiday in Macedonia on account of the western New Year non-working Macedonian public holiday for "all citizens" in Macedonia. [full story]

Botswana 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Botswana Press Agency (Gaborone) and Botswana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Botswana has released its annual list of official non-working bank holidays and public holidays in Botswana for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Luxemburg 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Ministère du Travail et de l'Emploi (Luxemburg) and Luxembourg bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Luxembourg Ministry of Labour (Ministère du Travail et de l'Emploi) has issued a completed version of its previously-released list of the annual non-working public holidays in Luxembourg ("Jours fériés légaux au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg") for the for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Liechtenstein 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Liechtensteinischer Bankenverband (Bankenplatz Liechtenstein) and Liechtenstein bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Liechtenstein has released its annual official list of Liechtenstein bank holidays and public holidays in Liechtenstein for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

UAE 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's government has announced its full annual list of expected non-working public holidays in the UAE for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Azerbaijani 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Azərbaycan Respublikası Nazirlər Kabineti (Baku) and Azerbaijan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Ministers has announced the full list of official annual non-working public holidays in Azerbaijan for the upcoming calendar year 2016, including the annual Novruz, Ramadan and Qurban non-working public holidays of Azerbaijan. [full story]

Armenian 2015-2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Հայերեն լրատվական գործակալությանը (ARMENPRESS) and Armenian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following its last session of the year, yesterday, the Government of Armenia announced amendments to the yet-to-be released annual list of official non-working public holidays in Armenia for the upcoming calendar year 2016, as well as the list of official non-working public holidays in Armenia for the calendar year 2015, announced earlier this year. [full story]

Ghana Public Holiday December 28

Sources: Ghana News Agency (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ghana's Deputy Minister of the Interior, James Agalga, has announced that Ghana's Minister of the Interior had declared Monday, December 28, 2015, as a statutory non-working public holiday in Ghana on account of the upcoming December 26 annual public holiday in Ghana, falling on a weekend in 2015. [full story]

Kuwaiti New Year 2016 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has announced that it has declared a one-off compensatory public holiday in Kuwait, to compensate the fact that January 1, 2016, the date of the annual New Year's day non-working public holiday in Kuwait, will fall on a Friday, thus during the Kuwaiti weekend, in 2016. [full story]

Swaziland Incwala Public Holiday December 28

Sources: Government of Swaziland Ministry of Home Affairs (Mbabane) and Swaziland bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Swaziland's Ludzidzini Acting Governor, Timothy Velabo "TV" Mtetwa, has announced that the upcoming Incwala annual non-working public holiday in Swaziland would occur on Monday, December 28, 2015. [full story]

Transdniestria January 2016 Public Holidays

Sources: Interfax (Tiraspol) and Transdniestrian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Transdniestria's Ministry of Social Protection and Labor has confirmed the list of 10 official non-working public holidays in the Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic (TMR, aka Transdniestria) for January 2016. [full story]

Kyrgyzstan 2016 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: Кабар - Кыргыз Улуттук Маалымат Агенттиги (Bishkek) and Kyrgyzstan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic has released an updated and expanded version of the calendar of annual public holidays which will be non-working public holidays in Kyrgyzstan and days off in the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Botswana Public Holidays December 24 and 31

Sources: Botswana Press Agency (Gaborone) and Botswana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Directorate of Public Service Management of the Government of Botswana has announced that it had declared Thursday, December 24, and Thursday, December 31, 2015, as non-working public sector holidays in Botswana. [full story]

Mauritania Public Holiday December 25

Sources: الوكالة الموريتانية للأنباء (Nouakchott) and Mauritanian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Mauritania has released a presidential communiqué declaring Friday, December 25, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in Mauritania on account of the upcoming second observance in 2015 of the "Aid El Maoulid" (the Prophet's Birthday) annual non-working public holiday in Mauritania. [full story]

Nigeria Extends 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Abuja) and Nigerian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Interior of the Federal Government of Nigeria, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, has announced that the Nigerian Government had declared 2 year-end 2015 non-working public holidays in Nigeria for the end of the year 2015, in addition to those year-end 2015 non-working public holidays in Nigeria announced late last week. [full story]

Macedonian Public Holiday December 25

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced that Friday, December 25, 2015, had been declared a non-working public holiday in Macedonia on account of the annual Catholic Christmas non-working Macedonian public holiday for "Catholic citizens" in Macedonia. [full story]

Honduras 2015 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Honduras has declared the afternoon of Thursday, December 24 and 31, 2015, as one-off public sector public holidays for Honduras' public sector ("a todos los funcionarios y empleados de la administración pública"). [full story]

Libyan Second 2015 Prophet's Birthday Public Holiday

Sources: المجلس الوطنى الإنتقالى (Tripoli) and Libyan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has announced that Wednesday, December 23, 2015, had been declared a non-working public holiday throughout Libya on account of the upcoming annual Mawlid Al-Nabi (Birth of the Prophet) non-working public holiday in Libya. [full story]

Argentina Adds 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Newly-elected Argentine President, Mauricio Macri, has once again decreed, year-end, public holidays for Argentina's public sector, on December 24 and 31, 2015, in addition to the previously-announced 2015 official non-working public holidays in Argentina. [full story]

Jamaican December 28 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and Jamaica bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Director of Legal Services at the Jamaican Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Camille Bennett-Campbell, has issued a JIS news release in which she rules-out the declaration of Monday, December 28, 2015, as a one-off day in lieu non-working public holiday in Jamaica, to compensate the fact that this year's Boxing Day annual non-working public holiday will fall on a weekend. [full story]

Nepalese Public Holiday December 25

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Nepal has announced that Friday, December 25, 2015, had been declared a non-working public holiday on account of the upcoming Christmas Day annual non-working public holiday of Nepal for the calendar year 2015-2016 (BS 2072). [full story]

Tanzanian Prophet's Birthday Public Holiday December 24

Sources: Prime Minister's Office United Republic Of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) and Tanzanian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the United Republic Of Tanzania has announced that the upcoming Maulid (Prophet's Birthday) bank holiday and non-working public holiday in Tanzania would be observed on Thursday, December 24, 2015. [full story]

UAE Extended New Year 2016 Public Holidays Ruled-Out

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's Emirates New Agency has reported that, despite the upcoming New Year's Day annual non-working public holiday in the UAE falling on a Friday, during the UAE weekend, there will be no additional, day in lieu (or substitute) non-working January 2016 public holidays in the UAE declared. [full story]

Niger Public Holidays December 24-25

Sources: Ministère de la Fonction Publique et du Travail du Niger (Niamey) and Niger bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministre de l'Emploi, du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale of the government of Niger, Salissou Ada, has declared Thursday and Friday, December 24 and 25, 2015, as the dates of the upcoming annual "Mouloud" (Prophet's Birthday) and Christmas Day, annual non-working public holidays in Niger for the calendar year 2015. [full story]

Cape Verde 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Ministro da Administração Interna (República de Cabo Verde) and Cape Verde bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Cape Verde has, as per custom, declared 2015-2016 year-end one off full day public sector holidays in Cape Verde (tolerância de ponto) on Thursday, December 24, 2015, and Thursday, December 31, 2015, for the full day. [full story]

Syrian Public Holiday December 23

Sources: مصرف سورية المركزي (Damascus) and Syrian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Syria’s Prime Minister has issued a statement declaring a non-working public holiday in Syria on Wednesday, December 23, 2015, on the occasion of the upcoming Mawlid An Nabi (The Prophet's Birthday) annual non-working public holiday of Syria. [full story]

Benin Public Holiday December 23

Sources: Site Officiel du président Béninois Boni Yayi (Cotonou) and Bénin bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Benin, through its "ministre de la fonction publique", Aboubacar Yaya, has declared Wednesday, December 23, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in Bénin ("a déclaré la journée du mercredi 23 décembre chômée et payée sur toute l’étendue du territoire national") on account of the upcoming annual Maloud non-working public holiday of Bénin (the Prophet's birthday). [full story]

Timor Leste 2015-2016 Year-End Public Holidays

Sources: Komunikadu Imprensa Sekretaria Estadu Konsellu Ministru Timor-Leste (Dili) and Timor Leste bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Timor Leste has announced that it had once again decided to declare 2 additional year-end public sector holidays in Timor Leste ("Toleránsia Pontu ba loron 24, parte loraik, no 31, durante loron tomak"), this time on December 24 and 31, 2015. [full story]